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When you or someone on your team gets sick, how do you approach the situation?

Our reader poll today asks: When you or someone on your team gets sick, how do you approach the situation?

Stay home, stop working and only focus on getting well 31.81%Stay home but stay in touch on major deliverables 29.69%Stay home and keep current on as much work as you can 30.03%Power through and go to work for important tasks 3.88%Power through, take medicine and get back to work 4.59%

Give yourself a break.

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How to Wean Squeaky Wheels on Your Team

The key to weaning squeaky wheels is to boost their confidence and make them more independent.

Your high-cost producers are in the upper-left corner of the leadership matrix. They deliver great results, but they consume a lot of your time and energy. The squeaky wheel is the epitome of a high-cost producer. They need to be weaned off of taking up all of your time.

Your goal with a squeaky wheel is to make them more independent.

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How well do you define accountabilities when the team is listing out all the work that needs to get done but no names are being put next to the tasks?

Our reader poll today asks: How well do you define accountabilities when the team is listing out all the work that needs to get done but no names are being put next to the tasks?

Extremely well: We don’t end the conversation until there’s a name next to every item 31.29%Very well: We resolve most accountabilities immediately but some slip by 27.61%Well: The important items have accountabilities identified but I let the smaller ones sort themselves out 22.70%Not well: Only the most important tasks get defined and others tend to languish without owners 15.34% Poorly: I have a really hard time assigning people’s names to tasks 3.06%

Naming names.

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Improve Your Leadership Skills with Better Planning and Decision-Making

I recently sat down with David (Ledge) Ledgerwood from the Leaders of B2B podcast to discuss improving leadership skills through better planning and decision-making.

On this episode of the Leaders of B2B podcast, David Ledgerwood and I discussed some leadership lessons that can help B2B business leaders become more successful.

We talked about the importance of making decisions quickly but rationally. Leaders also need to be flexible enough to recognize new information that allows them to correct a course of action.

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How to Identify Squeaky Wheels on Your Team

When you have a squeaky wheel on your team, your biggest challenge as a leader is going to be pulling back on the investment you’re making in them.

One type of high-cost producer you might deal with is a squeaky wheel. They’re in the upper left corner of the Leadership Matrix because they deliver great results, but they take up a lot of your time and energy.

Squeaky wheels are very effective at getting their work done. 

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The Human Dimension – The Forgotten Element of Performance Measurement (PM)

The Leadership Driven Method to Performance Management can help senior leaders in the public and not-for-profit sectors make informed decisions and meet their strategic goals. 

Today’s post is by Bryan Shane and Patricia Lafferty, authors of THE LEADERSHIP-DRIVEN METHOD TO PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT: The How-To Book on Improving Performance Measurement In The Public And Not-For-Profit Sectors (CLICK HERE to get your copy).

While many articles and approaches focus on the science of Performance Measurement, meaning the step-by-step methodology, and the business processes required to analyze, interpret, report, and the quality of performance measures, this article will focus on the human side or the art of performance measurement.

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What is your organization’s biggest source of competitive advantage?

Our reader poll today asks: What is your organization’s biggest source of competitive advantage?

Our people — we have the best team out there 49.54%Our product/service — no other products/services come close 21.97%Our prices — you can’t beat our deals 5.61%Our placement — we own the market we’re in 6.54%Our promotion — we’re amazing marketers and salespeople 0.46%Something else 7.47%We don’t have a competitive advantage 8.41%

People are our edge.

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How to Grow Your Team’s Rising Stars

 

To grow your team’s rising stars, make sure you step back, give them room to grow, and reward their performance accordingly. 

Your rising stars are in that upper right quadrant of the leadership matrix. You don’t put in a lot of time and energy, but you get great results out of them. The issue with rising stars is they want to advance and they can get bored along the way if they don’t have opportunities to grow.

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Creativity Does Not Make Innovation Happen. Execution and Leadership Does.

 

When it comes to innovation, focus is way more important than creativity.

Today’s post is by Alex Goryachev, author of FEARLESS INNOVATION: Going Beyond The Buzzword To Continuously Drive Growth, Improve The Bottom Line, And Enact Change (CLICK HERE to get your copy).

I often hear that innovation is primarily about ideas and creativity. With over 20 years of speaking with top innovators around the globe, I am biased to disagree.

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Which type of team member do you find to be the most challenging to lead?

Our reader poll today asks: Which type of team member do you find to be the most challenging to lead?

Someone with the skill but not the will to do the work 82.83%Someone with the will but not the skill to do the work 17.17%

Motivating is harder than training. The vast majority of respondents (83%) are more challenged by a team member who can do the work but simply chooses not to versus the person who wants to but doesn’t have the ability.

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